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A monosaccharide is made of a single carbohydrate molecule i.e. simple aldehyde or ketone molecules. Monosaccharides are called so because these simple sugars can't be further hydrolyzed but a polysaccharide is composed of many monosaccharides i.e. polysaccharide is polymer of 2 or more monosaccharide and are broken down into these simpler components through hydrolysis. Monosaccharides are sweet in taste but polysaccharides are tasteless. Monosaccharides have general formula Cn(H2O)n while polysaccharides have (C6H10O5)n.
Examples of a carbohydrate polymer are polysacharides(starch), monosarchrides(glucose), and disacharides(corn syrup)
a disaccharide is two monosaccharides. and a polysaccharide is a long chain of monosaccharides joined together. they are units of carbohydrates.
A carbohydrate (more specifically a polysaccharide in biochemistry)
What are the differences between polycarbohydrate and polysaccharide?
A polysaccharide is a carbohydrate. It is not made of protein but of monosaccharides.
monosaccharide
A carbohydrate made of hundreds of molecules linked together is called a polysaccharide. An example of a polysaccharide is starch.
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A polysaccharide in simplest terms is a "carbohydrate" and some could be a "sugar" (such as glycogen).
polysaccharide starch
fiber
No. Carbon is an element, not a carbohydrate.
The polymers of carbohydrates are polysaccharide.